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Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol

The New York Times | 1.3.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Much Alcohol Is Safe?

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft

Wired | 1.12.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Artificial Intelligence in the Academy

The Battle Over What to Tell Americans About Drinking

The New York Times | 1.1.2025

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: How Much Alcohol Is Safe?

Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment

The Atlantic | 12.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: “Volts of Your Own Spirit” and Seamus Heaney, Digging with the Pen

Insurance is what makes U.S. health-care prices so high

The Washington Post | 12.26.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The World’s Costliest Health Care

Energy-hungry AI firms bet on these moonshot technologies

The Washington Post | 12.27.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Should AI Be Scaled Down?

U.S. Homeless Count Surges 18% to Record High

The Wall Street Journal | 12.27.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: The Homelessness Public Health Crisis

This giving season, give with your heart and your head

The Boston Globe | 12.18.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: Making Charitable Giving More Competent

Harvard Graduates Have a Disproportionate Impact on Society

Forbes | 12.9.2024

Read more on this topic in Harvard Magazine's article: No One Deserves a Spot at Harvard

Why Seas are Surging

The Washington Post | 12.20.2024